Why shouldn't smoking cigarettes be encouraged? One of the biggest problems by far that Europe faces today is the aging population. If more people smoked and died at like age 70 as a result there wouldn't be a pension crisis or shortage of retirement homes. Young people would have more resources to spend on starting families instead of paying some 80 year old farts to gamble their inheritances on slot machines. It just makes sense to start a national pro-smoking campaign any way you look at it.